Kiefer Sutherland Says New FLATLINERS Movie Is Actually a Sequel
A few weeks ago we learned that Kiefer Sutherland had joined the new Flatliners movie that’s currently in development. Since the initial announcement of the movie, it was said to be a remake, but according to Sutherland, the movie is actually a sequel, which makes this new movie a bit more appealing to me as a fan of the original. During an interview with Metro UK, the actor talked about the character he plays and explained that it’s the same character he played in the original film:
“I play a professor at the medical university. It is never stated but it will probably be very clearly understood that I’m the same character I was in the original Flatliners but that I have changed my name and I’ve done some things to move on from the experiments that we were doing in the original film. I loved making the first film and when I was asked if I would be interested in taking part in this, it didn’t take more than a minute to say yes.”
I’m glad that he won’t just be playing some random professor. It’s cool that he has come back to reprise his original role. I do think a sequel focusing on the original characters would still have been much more interesting. I would have loved to see Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Billy Baldwin, and Oliver Platt reprise their roles all these years later and see a new story following their characters and where they ended up after the experiences they went through.
The new movie stars Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, and Kiersey Clemens as five medical students who decide to trigger near-death experiences by purposely stopping their hearts and then restarting them after a certain amount of time. As they delve deeper into their experiments, things become more and more dangerous and nightmarish as they are forced to confront the sins of their pasts and deal with the paranormal consequences of crossing a line to the other side.
What do you all think about the new Flatliners movie being more of a sequel than a remake?